10-letter words containing s, r, u, t, i
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
- strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip club — strip joint.
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- struthious — resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcircuit — a circuit within another circuit
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- suit-dress — a costume ensemble for women, consisting of a dress and matching coat or jacket.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- summertide — summer time
- summertime — the summer season.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superlight — extremely light
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertight — extremely tight
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- suppertime — the time at which supper is served, usually between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supportive — giving support.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm